Tuesday, November 11, 2014

A Modern Parable: Charity, But

While checking out at a local, exclusive to SD County grocery store, was asked if I wanted to buy ‘a bag of prepared meal for those who can’t afford.’  As I was saying “no,” with some reservations no-one would appreciate; I looked at the bag and realized that if the ‘checker’ person asked for just $1.00 only it would only take 11 people to make that bag accomplish its purpose. ...

I made the suggestion to the ‘checkout person’, who brighten her eyes as did the person behind me in line, “That’s a good idea.”     I added “Probably could ‘sell’ a lot more bags.”.

She then said “It would be very complicated keeping tract of who gave what, keeping records and where the money would be held.. ...Indicating the computer-cash-register, she said “We don’t have a System that can do that." [Those of you who know my view on binomial-black-white-if there isn’t a computer button, it can’t be done-think, might predict my return to that, ignorance of the difference, and contrast, between the word ‘tool’ and a unique-Person's ‘Mind, Heart, Soul - commerce of “Interchange; reciprocal communications; as, there is a vast commerce of ideas;” for the purpose of “Intercourse between individuals; interchange of work, business, civilities or amusements; mutual dealings in common life;” resulting in charity, as well as, “an interchange or mutual change of goods, wares, productions, or property of any kind, between nations or individuals, either by barter, or by purchase and sale; trade; traffic.”]: 

I observed: “That’s right. This is a great tool, putting my hand on the top of the computer screen, “that is the difference in this tool.  It is incapable of thinking;" adding,  "The back of the receipt is blank. You could just subtract (each time) from the $11.46 right on the back.....”   She wavered off and as we completed my checkout, being me, I said “Computers are tools, not a substitute for creative thinking..”

Upon which the ‘checker’ performed the mandatory, infamous arbitrary human precept statement of both depreciating of ‘Self’ always with ‘another’ – Disrespect,  “UDHR #19's personality- opinion without interference regardless of frontiers, jurisdiction, or jurisprudence, – “Yes;” meaning go away and leave my “Mind/ Heart/ Soul - alone, I’m not a person, but a member of the ‘collective-mass-people of judgement of, by, and for-group-binomial-think, “Just Answer. Yes! or No! !;” which is the newer form of the old “That’s your opinion and you have a right to it.”.   I responded, “You say Yes, but you don’t allow creativity. ...... Then said as walking away,   “It’s called ‘Wisdom, Knowledge, for Truth in Trust, Faith in Promise.”.......

We don’t have a System that can do that” among "I can't do that on the computer." is the ultimate example of 64 and less, year old Persons, who, since 1954, were forbidden by force, any information whatsoever regarding the One Law within the Laws of the Three Sacred Documents, our archetypal Republic under God, now known as "Destruction of Persons, man, woman, and child, through mental and physical defile by Common Core Curriculum of arbitrary, human precept's concrete-mind-hierarchy, rules of conduct - extortion; directly caused, with malice prepense, by State and Federal Indoctrination feigned as education; and what our 1620 Puritans, the American Indians who saved them, 99.8 % of Colonists, Founder’s among them, with complete understanding and full choice, did “If you abide by what I say you really will be disciples of mine. You will understand the Truth and The Truth will set you free;” contrasted to "Everyone who sins is a slave" in John 8: God Is Exactly Who He Says He Is....the Creator of the “U'NIVERSE, noun [Latin universitas.]  The collective name of heaven and earth, and all that belongs to them; the whole system of created things.”.

You see, if you don’t allow the ‘tool’ computer to rule your heart/ soul/ mind/ will/ courage/ strength....then You Most Definitely Do Have a System of Created Things which will allow you do work either with the computer, as its master, or your own skills—no computer required - "..The Interchange; reciprocal communications; as, there is a vast commerce of ideas. ..”; or the tool, each-one-person’s own, arbitrary-absolute-rules of conduct-extortion as dictator and master of Your 'Self'...who will never, again question any ‘thing’ – having learned the ultimate-obedience, non-entity-wall-of-compulsory-conformity of Your Very Own Property: ”In its larger and juster meaning, it embraces every thing to which a man may attach a value and have a right; and which leaves to every one else the like advantage, Mind/ heart/ will/ Soul, though not conscience, for liberty is never gone....just lost.

Because of CCC, of absolute-rules of conduct- extortion with enslavement of any child's 16 to 20 years of life in State and Federal Indoctrination, mandatory-mind-control-devoid-the One Law, among all nation's of God and His Son of man-Planet earth within heaven, and the Laws of the Three Sacred Documents of, by, and for Consent of the Governed, We the People...who are fully intended to lead all nations, mentored -- for Liberty in Life's Justice - God Is and Must Be The Full:
"...I am the light of the world: he who follows me will never walk in darkness, he will enjjoy the light of Life."....
           Truly, truly I tell you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs up somewhere else, he is a thief and a robber; he who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.  The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice; he calls his sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought all his sheep outside, he goes in front of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice; they will not follow the voice of strangers.". Jesus told them this allegory, but they did not understand what he was saying to them; so he said to them again,
           Truly, truly I tell you, I am the shepherd of the sheep; all who ever came before me have been thieves and robbers---but the sheep would not listen to them. (I am the Gate; whoever enters by me will be saved, he will go in and out and find pasture.)  The thief only comes to steal, to slay, and to destroy: I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.  I am the good shepherd; a good shepherd lays down his own life for the sheep. The hired man, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, deserts them when he sees the wolf coming; he runs away, leaving the wolf to tear and scatter them, just because he is a hired man, who has no interest in the sheep. [Think Benghazi, Lebanon - No U.S. Marines, literally hired, with taxpayer money, robbers and thieves, who did exactly that to Americans on American Soil -- "left for wolves to tear and scatter them" -- and a arrogant-human precept-President busy with his No Oath of Office, No Truth, Trust, or God, ignored the situation]
            I am the good shepherd, I know my sheep and my sheep know me (just as the Father knows me and I know the Father), and I lay down my life for the sheep.  I have other sheep, too, which do not belong to this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice; so it will be one flock, one shepherd.   This is why my Father loves me, because I lay down my life to take it up again.
            No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord: I have power to lay it down and also power to take it up again; I have my Father's orders for this. I and my Father are one---." --John 10.  
No Person will find any of the above in a computer, or any inanimate-indifferent-object which requires a person to make use of it, for good or for evil....You are from the world below, I am from the world above: you belong to this world, I do not belong to this world. So I told you, you would die in your sins; for unless you believe who I am, you will die in your sins.".  Each-one-Person makes his own "world down below" - never within a collective-group, never by "modern-day-pharisees," for whom Jesus did the vast majority of his teaching....and who remained....with stones, not in their hands -- for they are the arbitrary human precept rules of conduct-extortion, devoid Truth, Trust, Promise---- in the hands of  "the Jews", who like Islamic tribal, collective people, are the slaves in indentured servitude to their rulers or be punished themselves ---who throw the stones, many of those same Jews are who know Jesus Is Exactly Who He Says He Is, Eternally Doing Exactly What He Said He Would Do...and Exactly What He Taught YOU, Shall Occur, Consequences, as so many of you decide that "Personality-Human Precept-UDHR" is so much better than our Archetypal One Law within the Laws of the Three Sacred Documents.

To complete the lessons, warnings, and illustrations in "abounding allegory and metaphor" that Dr. Moffatt teaches in his "Introduction", below is a list of words for the purpose of "Language is the expression of ideas ; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language," and therefore, communication... . That is far from all you learn among the more than connections employing Dr. Webster's Preface, April 14, 1828 "AMERICAN DICTIONARY of the English Language" and definition of words....:

from just the language and communication within this "modern" Parable connected to Bible, Declaration and Constitution:
Words are in the order used in the Modern Parable, But:
"SYS'TEM, noun [Latin systema; Gr. to set.]  1. An assemblage of things adjusted into a regular whole; or a whole plan or scheme consisting of many parts connected in such a manner as to create a chain of mutual dependencies; or a regular union of principles or parts forming one entire thing. Thus we say, a system of logic, a system of philosophy, a system of government, a system of principles, the solar system the Copernican system a system of divinity, a system of law, a system of morality, a system of husbandry, a system of botany or of chimistry.       2. Regular method or order.       3. In music, an interval compounded or supposed to be compounded of several lesser intervals, as the fifth octave, etc. the elements of which are called diastems.

 CREATION, noun 1. The act of creating; the act of causing to exist; and especially, the act of bringing this world into existence. Romans 1:20.      2. The act of making, by new combinations of matter, invested with new forms and properties, and of subjecting to different laws; the act of shaping and organizing; as the creation of man and other animals, of plants, minerals, etc.      3. The act of investing with a new character; as the creation of peers in England.      4. The act of producing.      5. The things created; creatures; the world; the universe. As subjects then the whole creation came. Sir John Denham      6. Any part of the things created. Before the low creation swarmed with men. Thomas Parnell, 1679-1718, Poet      7. Any thing produced or caused to exist. A false creation proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain.  Shakespeare
            CREATIVE, adjective Having the power to create, or exerting the act of creation; as creative fancy; creative power.

 THINK, verb intransitive preterit tense and participle passive thought, pronoun thaut. [Latin duco.]
1. To have the mind occupied on some subject; to have ideas, or to revolve ideas in the mind.  --For that I am I know, because I think These are not matters to be slightly thought on. John Dryden      2. To judge; to conclude; to hold as a settled opinion. I think it will rain tomorrow. I think it not best to proceed on our journey. Let them marry to whom they think best. Numbers 36:6.      3. To intend.  Thou thought'st to help me. I thought to promote thee to great honor. Numbers 24:11.      4. To imagine; to suppose; to fancy.  Edmund, I think is gone In pity of his misery, to dispatch His 'nighted life. Shakespeare  Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall. 1 Corinthians 10:12.      5. To muse; to meditate. While Peter thought on the vision--Acts 10:1.  THINK much, speak little. John Dryden      6. To reflect; to recollect or call to mind.
And when Peter thought thereon, he wept. Mark 14:64.      7. To consider; to deliberate. think how this thing could happen.  He thought within himself, saying, what shall I do? Luke 12:40.      8. To presume.
THINK not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father-- Matthew 3:9.       9. To believe; to esteem. To think on or upon, to muse on; to meditate on. If there by any virtue, and if there by any praise, think on these things. Philippians 4:8.
1. To light on by meditation. He has just thought on an expedient that will answer the purpose.
2. To remember with favor.    THINK upon me, my God, for good. Nehemiah 5:19.
             To think of, to have ideas come into the mind. He thought of what you told him. I would have sent the books, but I did not think of it.  To think well of, to hold in esteem; to esteem.
THINK, verb transitive To conceive; to imagine. Charity--thinketh no evil. 1 Corinthians 13:5.      1. To believe; to consider; to esteem. Nor think superfluous others' aid.  John Milton
3. To seem or appear, as in the phrases, me thinketh or methinks, and methought. These are genuine Saxon phrases, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me. In these expressions, me is actually in the dative case; almost the only instance remaining in the language. Sax 'genoh thuht, ' satis visum est, it appeared enough or sufficient; 'me thineth, ' mihi videtur, it seems to me; I perceive.
           To think much, to grudge.    He thought not much to clothe his enemies.    To think much of, to hold in high esteem.    To think scorn, to disdain. Esther 3:1.

THING, noun [The primary sense of thing is that which comes, falls or happens, like event, from Latin evenio.]  1. An event or action; that which happens or falls out, or that which is done, told or proposed. This is the general signification of the word in the Scriptures; as after these things, that is, events.  And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight, because of his son. Genesis 21:11.   Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, the thing proceedeth from the Lord. Genesis 24:50.   And Jacob said, all these things are against me. Gen 42.   I will tell you by what authority I do these things. Matthew 21:24.   These things said Esaias when he saw his glory. John 12:16.   In learning French, choose such books as will teach you things as well as language. Jay to Littlepage      2. Any substance; that which is created; any particular article or commodity. He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt-- Gen 42.  They took the things which Micah had made. Judges 18:7.      3. An animal; as every living thing; every creeping thing Gen 1. [This application of the word is improper, but common in popular and vulgar language.]       4. A portion or part; something. Wicked men who understand any thing of wisdom-- Tillotson      5. In contempt.
I have a thing in prose. Jonathan Swift      6. Used of persons in contempt.  See, sons, what things you are Shakespeare  The poor thing sigh'd. Joseph Addison  I'll be this abject thing no more. Granville      7. Used in a sense of honor. I see thee here, Thou noble thing!  Shakespeare

PERSON, noun per'sn. [Latin persona; said to be compounded of per, through or by, and sonus, sound; a Latin word signifying primarily a mask used by actors on the state.]
1. An individual human being consisting of body and soul. We apply the word to living beings only, possessed of a rational nature; the body when dead is not called a person It is applied alike to a man, woman or child.  A person is a thinking intelligent being. John Locke    [ In the Principles of the Three Sacred Documents: "Only individual persons or corporate "persons" which are composed of individual persons may be the subject of legal process. Inanimate objects and living objects not capable of conducting their own defense in a court of law may not be parties to an action at law. .."]        
 2. A man, woman or child, considered as opposed to things, or distinct from them.  A zeal for persons is far more easy to be perverted, than a zeal for things. Sprat      3. A human being, considered with respect to the living body or corporeal existence only. The form of her person is elegant.  You'll find her person difficult to gain. John Dryden  The rebels maintained the fight for a small time, and for their persons showed no want of courage. Sir Francis Bacon      4. A human being, indefinitely; one; a man. Let a person's attainments be never so great, he should remember he is frail and imperfect.       5. A human being represented in dialogue, fiction, or on the state; character. A player appears in the person of king Lear.  These tables, Cicero pronounced under the person of Crassus, were of more use and authority than all the books of the philosophers.  Baker       6. Character of office. How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend. South      7. In grammar, the nominative to a verb; the agent that performs or the patient that suffers any thing affirmed by a verb; as, I write; he is smitten; she is beloved; the rain descends in torrents. I, thou or you, he, she or it, are called the first, second and third persons. Hence we apply the word person to the termination or modified form of the verb used in connection with the persons; as the first or the third person of the verb; the verb is in the second person
8. In law, an artificial person is a corporation or body politic.  In person by one's self; with bodily presence; not be representative. Sir William Blackstone  The king in person visits all around. John Dryden
PER'SON, verb transitive To represent as a person; to make to resemble; to image. [Not in use.]
           [ In the Declaration and Constitution: "The individual component of the polity is the Person, which is defined as any being consisting of or having the essential cognitive attributes of a member of the species homo sapiens, including both the capacity to compete with others for the means to exercise the natural rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and the capacity to regulate its competitive actions to avoid depriving others of those rights and to sacrifice itself for the greater good of the polity as a whole or for their common posterity.
The polity, or society, is created by the Social Contract, in which persons agree to join together for mutual benefit and defense, and to regulate their behavior to avoid forms of competition which are destructive of social coherence and effectiveness, such as violence, deception, or collusion, or to infringe on the rights of others."]

"We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be Just must give a reciprocation of Right; that without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience."--Thomas Jefferson 1782:
"FUNDAMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence, essential; important; as a fundamental truth or principle; a fundamental law; a fundamental sound or chord in music.
FUNDAMENT'AL, noun A leading or primary principle, rule, law or article, which serves as the ground work of a system; essential part; as the fundamentals of the christian faith.

LAW, noun [Latin lex; from the root of lay. See lay. A law is that which is laid, set or fixed, like statute, constitution, from Latin statuo.]  1. A rule, particularly an established or permanent rule, prescribed by the supreme power of a state to its subjects, for regulating their actions, particularly their social actions. Laws are imperative or mandatory, commanding what shall be done; prohibitory, restraining from what is to be forborn; or permissive, declaring what may be done without incurring a penalty. The laws which enjoin the duties of piety and morality, are prescribed by God and found in the Scriptures.  LAW is beneficence acting by rule.  Edmund Burke     2. Municipal law is a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power of a state, commanding what its subjects are to do, and prohibiting what they are to forbear; a statute.
            Municipal or civil laws are established by the decrees, edicts or ordinances of absolute princes, as emperors and kings, or by the formal acts of the legislatures of free states. law therefore is sometimes equivalent to decree, edict, or ordinance.
3. law of nature, is a rule of conduct arising out of the natural relations of human beings established by the Creator, and existing prior to any positive precept. Thus it is a law of nature, that one man should not injure another, and murder and fraud would be crimes, independent of any prohibition from a supreme power.
4. Laws of animal nature, the inherent principles by which the economy and functions of animal bodies are performed, such as respiration, the circulation of the blood, digestion, nutrition, various secretions, etc.
5. Laws of vegetation, the principles by which plats are produced, and their growth carried on till they arrive to perfection.
6. Physical laws, or laws of nature. The invariable tendency or determination of any species of matter to a particular form with definite properties, and the determination of a body to certain motions, changes, and relations, which uniformly take place in the same circumstances, is called a physical law These tendencies or determinations, whether called laws or affections of matter, have been established by the Creator, and are, with a peculiar felicity of expression, denominated in Scripture, ordinances of heaven.
7. Laws of nations, the rules that regulate the mutual intercourse of nations or states. These rules depend on natural law or the principles of justice which spring from the social state; or they are founded on customs, compacts, treaties, leagues and agreements between independent communities.
            By the law of nations, we are to understand that code of public instruction, which defines the rights and prescribes the duties of nations, in their intercourse with each other.
8. Moral law a law which prescribes to men their religious and social duties, in other words, their duties to God and to each other. The moral law is summarily contained in the decalogue or ten commandments, written by the finger of God on two tables of stone, and delivered to Moses on mount Sinai.  Exodus 20:1.
9. Ecclesiastical law a rule of action prescribed for the government of a church; otherwise called canon law
10. Written law a law or rule of action prescribed or enacted by a sovereign, and promulgated and recorded in writing; a written statute, ordinance, edict or decree.
11. Unwritten or common law a rule of action which derives its authority from long usage, or established custom, which has been immemorially received and recognized by judicial tribunals. As this law can be traced to no positive statutes, its rules or principles are to be found only in the records of courts, and in the reports of judicial decisions.  [NewSpeak's Article III Judiciary, by  edict, no person at-large is aware of, but very well known, from 1969-70 as "Common Law (precedent) Public (government interests supreme to the collective, mass people) Value" in which the Article VI supreme Law of the Land must have "permission" from the judiciary, to be the supreme Law of the Land, since the Judiciary has decreed there is no Law in the Declaration; and the Constitution is an Isolated Document as a result of 1947's great and impenetrable wall between collective-people-church-ecclesiastics and collective-people-state-usurped by the CLPV-government interests also by edict in decree]
12. By-law, a law of a city, town or private corporation. [See By.]
13. Mosaic law the institutions of Moses, or the code of laws prescribed to the Jews, as distinguished from the gospel.
14. Ceremonial law the Mosaic institutions which prescribe the external rites and ceremonies to be observed by the Jews, as distinct from the moral precepts, which are of perpetual obligation.
15. A rule of direction; a directory; as reason and natural conscience.  These, having not the law as a law to themselves. Romans 2:12. [which connects to Laws of Nature's God to Oath of Office as well as the Preambles of both Documents.]
16. That which governs or has a tendency to rule; that which has the power of controlling.  But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. Romans 7:1.
17. The word of God; the doctrines and precepts of God, or his revealed will.  But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalms 1:2.      18. The Old Testament. Is it not written in your law I said, ye are gods? John 10:34.
19. The institutions of Moses, as distinct from the other parts of the Old Testament; as the law and the prophets.
20. A rule or axiom of science or art; settled principle; as the laws of versification or poetry.
21. law martial, or martial law the rules ordained for the government of an army or military force.
22. Marine laws, rules for the regulation of navigation, and the commercial intercourse of nations.
23. Commercial law law-merchant, the system of rules by which trade and commercial intercourse are regulated between merchants.
24. Judicial process; prosecution of right in courts of law  Tom Touchy is a fellow famous for taking the law of every body.  Hence the phrase, to go to law to prosecute; to seek redress in a legal tribunal.
25. Jurisprudence; as in the title, Doctor of Laws.
26. In general, law is a rule of action prescribed for the government of rational beings or moral agents, to which rule they are bound to yield obedience, in default of which they are exposed to punishment; or law is a settled mode or course of action or operation in irrational beings and in inanimate bodies.
Civil law criminal law [See Civil and Criminal.]
LAWs of honor. [See Honor.]
            LAW language, the language used in legal writings and forms, particularly the Norman dialect or Old French, which was used in judicial proceedings from the days of William the conqueror to the 36th year of Edward III.
            Wager of law a species of trial formerly used in England, in which the defendant gave security that he would, on a certain day, make his law that is, he would make oath that he owed nothing to the plaintiff, and would produce eleven of his neighbors as compurgators, who should swear that they believed in their consciences that he had sworn the truth.
LAW'-BREAKER, noun One who violates the law

JURISPRU'DENCE, noun [Latin jurisprudentia; jus, law, and prudentia, science.] The science of law; the knowledge of the laws, customs and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due administration of justice. The study of jurisprudence next to that of theology, is the most important and useful to men.

REGULA'TION, noun  1. The act of regulating or reducing to order.      2. A rule or order prescribed by a superior for the management of some business, or for the government of a company or society.    [Please Note: this current socialist-atheist, anti-Republic under God Regime, CA State enjoined or Executive CEO's Cabinet with both - administrative-police-state is Not "administrative, or regulatory law"; for ONLY "Congress writes Law" -- Not the Judiciary under any circumstance....  this in not true of  the arbitrary, concrete-layered, deluded-demockracy, human precept, rules of conduct - extortion rampant within UDHR-UN-EU-World Courts and even some church ecclesiastics.}

JUST, adjective [Latin justus. The primary sense is probably straight or close, from the sense of setting, erecting, or extending.]  1. Regular; orderly; due; suitable.  When all The war shall stand ranged in its just array.      2. Exactly proportioned; proper.  Pleaseth your lordship To meet his grace, just distance 'tween our armies? Shakespeare       3. Full; complete to the common standard. He was a comely personage, a little above just stature.       4. Full; true; a sense allied to the preceding, or the same. --So that once the skirmish was like to have come to a just battle.      5. In a moral sense, upright; honest; having principles of rectitude; or conforming exactly to the laws, and to principles of rectitude in social conduct; equitable in the distribution of justice; as a just judge.      6. In an evangelical sense, righteous; religious; influenced by a regard to the laws of God; or living in exact conformity to the divine will. There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Ecclesiastes 7:15.       7. Conformed to rules of justice; doing equal justice  JUST balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just him shall ye have. Leviticus 19:36.
8. Conformed to truth; exact; proper; accurate; as just thoughts; just expressions; just images or representations; a just description; a just inference.      9. True; founded in truth and fact; as a just charge or accusation.      10. Innocent; blameless; without guilt.  How should man be just with God? Job 9:2.
11. Equitable; due; merited; as a just recompense or reward.  --Whose damnation is just Romans 3:8.    
12. True to promises; faithful; as just to one's word or engagements.      13. Impartial; allowing what is due; giving fair representation of character, merit or demerit.
JUST', adverb Close or closely; ; near or nearly, in place. He stood just by the speaker, and heard what he said. He stood just at the entrance of the city.  1. Near or nearly in time; almost. just at that moment he arose and fled.      2. Exactly; nicely; accurately. They remain just of the same opinion.  'Tis with our judgments as our watches; Go just alike, yet each believes his own.      3. Merely; barely; exactly.  --And having just enough, not covet more.      4. Narrowly. He just escaped without injury.
JUST, noun A mock encounter on horseback; a combat for sport or for exercise, in which the combatants pushed with lances and swords, man to man, in mock fight; a tilt; one of the exercises at tournaments.
JUST, verb intransitive  1. To engage in mock fight on horseback.      2. To push; to drive; to justle.

RECIPROCA'TION, noun [Latin reciprocatio.]  1. Interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as the reciprocation of kindnesses.      2. Alternation; as the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides.
3. Regular return or alternation of two symptoms or diseases.

MERE, adjective [Latin merus.] This or that only; distinct from any thing else.   From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of a nation.  Atterbury   What if the head, the eye or ear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind?  Alexander Pope    1. Absolute; entire.
MERE, noun [Latin mare. See Moor.] A pool or lake.
MERE, noun [Gr. to divide.] A boundary; used chiefly in the compound, mere-stone.
MERE, verb transitive To divide, limit or bound.

ARBITRARY, adjective [Latin arbitrarious.]  1. Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.  ARBITRARY power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. George Washington       2. Despotic; absolute in power; having no external control; as, an arbitrary prince or government.
            DISCRETION, noun [L, a separating. See Discreet.]  1. Prudence, or knowledge and prudence; that discernment which enables a person to judge critically of what is correct and proper, united with caution; nice discernment and judgment, directed by circumspection, and primarily regarding ones own conduct.  A good man--will guide his affairs with discretion Psalms 112:5.   My son, keep sound wisdom and discretion Proverbs 3:21.      2. Liberty or power of acting without other control than ones own judgment; as, the management of affairs was left to the discretion of the prince; he is left to his own discretion Hence, To surrender at discretion is to surrender without stipulation or terms, and commit ones self entirely to the power of the conqueror.      3. Disjunction; separation. [Not much used.]

DESPOTISM, noun  1. Absolute power; authority unlimited and uncontrolled by men, constitution or laws, and depending alone on the will of the prince; as the despotism of a Turkish sultan.      2. An arbitrary government, as that of Turkey and Persia.
            DESPOTICAL, adjective  1. Absolute in power; independent of control from men, constitution or laws; arbitrary in the exercise of power; as a despotic prince.      2. Unlimited or unrestrained by constitution, laws or men; absolute; arbitrary; as despotic authority or power.      3. Tyrannical.

RIGHT, adjective rite. [Latin rectus, from the root of rego, properly to strain or stretch, whence straight.]
Properly; strained; stretched to straightness; hence, 1. Straight. A right line in geometry is the shortest line that can be drawn or imagined between two points. A right line may be horizontal, perpendicular, or inclined to the plane of the horizon.
2. In morals and religion, just; equitable; accordant to the standard of truth and justice or the will of God. That alone is right in the sight of God, which is consonant to his will or law; this being the only perfect standard of truth and justice. In social and political affairs, that is right which is consonant to the laws and customs of a country, provided these laws and customs are not repugnant to the laws of God. A man's intentions may be right though his actions may be wrong in consequence of a defect in judgment.
3. Fit; suitable; proper; becoming. In things indifferent, or which are regulated by no positive law, that is right which is best suited to the character, occasion or purpose, or which is fitted to produce some good effect. It is right for a rich man to dress himself and his family in expensive clothing, which it would not be right for a poor man to purchase. It is right for every man to choose his own time for eating or exercise.
            RIGHT is a relative term; what may be right for one end, may be wrong for another.
4. Lawful; as the right heir of an estate.      5. True; not erroneous or wrong; according to fact.  If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is certainly right 'let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.'
6. Correct; passing a true judgment; not mistaken or wrong.  You are right justice, and you weigh this well.
7. Not left; most convenient or dextrous; as the right hand, which is generally most strong or most convenient in use.      8. Most favorable or convenient.  The lady has been disappointed on the right side.      9. Properly placed, disposed or adjusted; orderly; well regulated.      10. Well performed, as an art or act.      11. Most direct; as the right way from London to Oxford.      12. Being on the same side as the right hand; as the right side.      13. Being on the right hand of a person whose face is towards the mouth of a river; as the right bank of the Hudson.
RIGHT, adverb  1. In a right or straight line; directly.  Let thine eyes look right on. Proverbs 4:11.    
2. According to the law or will of God, or to the standard of truth and justice; as, to judge right    
3. According to any rule of art. You with strict discipline instructed right      4. According to fact or truth; as, to tell a story right      5. In a great degree; very; as right humble; right noble; right valiant. [Obsolescent or inelegant.]      6. It is prefixed to titles; as in right honorable; right reverend.  RIGHT, is used elliptically for it is right what you say is right it is true, etc.  RIGHT, cries his lordship.  On the right on the side with the right hand.
RIGHT, noun  1. Conformity to the will of God, or to his law, the perfect standard of truth and justice. In the literal sense, right is a straight line of conduct, and wrong a crooked one. right therefore is rectitude or straightness, and perfect rectitude is found only in an infinite Being and his will.
2. Conformity to human laws, or to other human standard of truth, propriety or justice. When laws are definite, right and wrong are easily ascertained and understood. In arts, there are some principles and rules which determine what is right In many things indifferent, or left without positive law, we are to judge what is right by fitness or propriety, by custom, civility or other circumstances.      3. Justice; that which is due or proper; as, to do right to every man. Long love to her has borne the faithful knight, and well deserv'd had fortune done him right      4. Freedom from error; conformity with truth or fact. Seldom your opinions err, your eyes are always in the right      5. Just claim; legal title; ownership; the legal power of exclusive possession and enjoyment. In hereditary monarchies, a right to the throne vests in the heir on the decease of the king. A deed vests the right of possession in the purchaser of land. right and possession are very different things. We often have occasion to demand and sue for rights not in possession.      6. Just claim by courtesy, customs, or the principles of civility and decorum. Every man has a right to civil treatment. The magistrate has a right to respect.      7. Just claim by sovereignty; prerogative. God, as the author of all things, has a right to govern and dispose of them at his pleasure.      8. That which justly belongs to one.  Born free, he sought his right      9. Property; interest.  A subject in his prince may claim a right       10. Just claim; immunity; privilege. All men have a right to the secure enjoyment of life, personal safety, liberty and property. We deem the right of trial by jury invaluable, particularly in the case of crimes. Rights are natural, civil, political, religious, personal, and public.      11. Authority; legal power. We have no right to disturb others in the enjoyment of their religious opinions.      12. In the United States, a tract of land; or a share or proportion of property, as in a mine or manufactory.      
13. The side opposite to the left; as on the right Look to the right
       1. To rights, in a direct line; straight. [Unusual.]
       2. Directly; soon.
To set to rights,
To put to rights, to put into good order; to adjust; to regulate what is out of order.
Bill of rights, a list of rights; a paper containing a declaration of rights, or the declaration itself.
Writ of right a writ which lies to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.
RIGHT, verb transitive  1. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; as, to right an injured person.       2. In seamen's language, to right a ship, is to restore her to an upright position from a careen.  To right the helm, to place it in the middle of the ship.
RIGHT, verb intransitive To rise with the masts erect, as a ship.

RULE, noun [Latin regula, from rego, to govern, that is, to stretch, strain or make straight.]  1. Government; sway; empire; control; supreme command or authority.  A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame. Proverbs 17:2.  And his stern rule the groaning land obey'd.
2. That which is established as a principle, standard or directory; that by which any thing is to be adjusted or regulated, or to which it is to be conformed; that which is settled by authority or custom for guidance and direction. Thus a statute or law is a rule of civil conduct; a canon is a rule of ecclesiastical government; the precept or command of a father is a rule of action or obedience to children; precedents in law are rules of decision to judges; maxims and customs furnish rules for regulating our social opinions and manners. The laws of God are rules for directing us in life, paramount to all others.  A rule which you do not apply, is no rule at all.      3. An instrument by which lines are drawn. Judicious artist will use his eye, but he will trust only to his rule      4. Established mode or course of proceeding prescribed in private life. Every man should have some fixed rules for managing his own affairs.      5. In literature, a maxim, canon or precept to be observed in any art or science.      6. In monasteries, corporations or societies, a law or regulation to be observed by the society and its particular members.      7. In courts, rules are the determinations and orders of court, to be observed by its officers in conducting the business of the court.      8. In arithmetic and algebra, a determinate mode prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
9. In grammar, an establish form of construction in a particular class of words; or the expression of that form in words. Thus it is a rule in English, that s or es, added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but man forms its plural men, and is an exception to the rule
              RULE of three, is that rule of arithmetic which directs, when three terms are given, how to find a fourth, which shall have the same ratio to the third term, as the second has to the first.
RULE, verb transitive  1. To govern; to control the will and actions of others, either by arbitrary power and authority, or by established laws. The emperors of the east rule their subjects without the restraints of a constitution. In limited governments, men are ruled by known laws.  If a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God? 1 Timothy 3:5.      2. To govern the movements of things; to conduct; to manage; to control. That God rules the world he has created, is a fundamental article of belief.      3. To manage; to conduct, in almost any manner.      4. To settle as by a rule
That's a ruled case with the schoolmen.      5. To mark with lines by a ruler; as, to rule a blank book.
6. To establish by decree or decision; to determine; as a court.
RULE, verb intransitive To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority.  By me princes rule Proverbs 8:16. It is often followed by over.  They shall rule over their oppressors. Isaiah 14:2.  We subdue and rule over all other creatures.

OF, preposition ov. [Gr.]  1. From or out of; proceeding from, as the cause, source, means, author or agent bestowing.  I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you. 1 Corinthians 11:1.  For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts. Joshua 11:1.  It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed.
Lamentations 3:1.  The whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Proverbs 16:1.  Go, inquire of the Lord for me. 2 Chronicles 34:2.  That holy thing that shall be born of thee. Luke 1:1.
            Hence of is the sign of the genitive case, the case that denotes production; as the son of man, the son proceeding from man, produced from man. This is the primary sense, although we now say, produced by man. 'Part of these were slain; ' that is, a number separate, for part denotes a division; the sense then is, a number from or out of the whole were slain. So also, 'some of these were slain; ' that is, some from or out of others. 'I have known him of old, or of a child; ' that is, from old times, from a child. 'He is of the race of kings; ' that is, descended from kings. 'He is of noble blood or birth, or of ignoble origin.' 'No particle of matter, or no body can move of itself; ' that is, by force or strength proceeding from itself, derived from itself.
            'The quarrel is not now of fame and tribute, or of wrongs done; ' that is, from fame or wrongs, as the cause, and we may render it concerning, about, relating to.
            'Of this little he had some to spare; ' that is, some from the whole. It may be rendered out of
            'Of all our heroes thou canst boast alone; ' that is, thou alone from the number of heroes. This may be rendered among.
            'The best of men, the most renowned of all; ' that is, the best from the number of men, the most renowned from the whole; denoting primarily separation, like part.
            I was well entertained of the English Consul; ' that is, entertained from the Consul; my entertainment was from the Consul. This use is obsolete, and we use by in lieu of it.
            'This does of right belong to us; ' that is, from right, de jure; our title proceeds from right.
            'The chariot was all of cedar; ' that is, made from cedar. So we say, made of gold, made of clay; an application corresponding with our modern use of from; manufactured from wool, or from raw materials. Hence we say, cloth consisting of wool. 'This is a scheme of his own devising; ' that is, from his own devising or device. 'If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth; ' that is, as from the ability, as the source of action.
            'Of happy, he is become miserable; ' that is, from happy; from being happy, he has passed to being miserable. 'Of necessity this must prove ruinous; ' that is, from necessity, as the cause or source. 'Of a hundred take fifty; ' that is, from a hundred, or out of a hundred, from among a hundred.
            OF sometimes implies a part or share.    It is a duty to communicate of those blessings we have received.
              From is then the primary sense of this preposition; a sense retained in off, the same word differently written for distinction. But this sense is appropriately lost in many of its applications; as a man of genius, a man of courage, a man of rare endowments, a fossil of a red color, or of a hexagonal figure. he lost all hope of relief. This is an affair of the cabinet. He is a man of decayed fortune. What is the price of corn? We say that of in these and similar phrases, denotes property or possession, making of the sign of the genitive or possessive case. These applications, however, all proceeded from the same primary sense. That which proceeds from or is produced by a person, is naturally the property or possession of that person, as the son of John; and this idea of property in the course of time would pass to things not thus produced, but still bearing a relation to another thing. Thus we say, the father of a son, as well as the son of a father. In both senses, other languages also use the same word, as in the French de, de la, and Italian di, dell. of then has one primary sense, from, departing, issuing, proceeding from or out of and a derivative sense denoting possession or property.

OPINION, noun opin'yon. [Latin opinio, from opinor, to thing, Gr., Latin suppono.]   1. The judgment which the mind forms of any proposition, statement, theory or event, the truth or falsehood of which is supported by a degree of evidence that renders it probably, but does not produce absolute knowledge or certainty. It has been a received opinion that all matter is comprised in four elements. This opinion is proved by many discoveries to be false. From circumstances we form opinions respecting future events.
            OPINION is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inclines to one persuasion than to another, yet not without a mixture of uncertainty or doubting.   
2. The judgment or sentiments which the mind forms of persons or their qualities. We speak of a good opinion a favorable opinion a bad opinion a private opinion and public or general opinion etc.  Friendship gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.      3. Settled judgment or persuasion; as religious opinions; political opinion      4. Favorable judgment; estimation.  In actions of arms, small matters are of great moment, especially when they serve to raise an opinion of commanders.  However, I have no opinion of these things -
OPIN'ION, verb transitive To think. [Not used.]  
            [Before about 1947, there was a 100% probability that any person offering an "opinion" would be basing their supposition in wisdom, knowledge for Truth in Trust, Faith in Promise.  Since socialist-communist written UDHR, ratified by UN in 1949, the probability that any person offering and "opinion", would be zero to 40%; and since January 20, 2009, this current anti-Republic under God Regime...probability of any person's opinion is Zero; for truth, trust, and promise are totally irrelevant and immaterial to judgement of personality in arbitrary human precept's "It's what comes out of the mouth that defiles a man.".  There are always, at all times and under all circumstances Persons who have decided to take Christ's Cross and follow Him, but often they are never recognized, for once sin in lie begins, it becomes habitual, and its consequences are ignored, which increases the ignorance...thus deriving the dark blackness which Jesus taught, i.e The huge planks in the hypocrisy of "judgement by personality" of Matt. 7; Abraham's children of John 8; the "robbers and thieves" of John 10; or those of "Hindrances" against children who are wearing with great pride, their millstone of ignorance, and forgetting to look for the sea to jump into in Matt. 18. the Falsehood, UDHR #19 "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers," jurisprudence, jurisdiction, just, or right.]

CONDUCT, noun [Latin , to lead. See Duke.]  1. Literally, the act of leading; guidance; command. So Waller has used it.  CONDUCT of armies is a princes art.      2. The act of convoying, or guarding; guidance or brining along under protection.   3. Guard on the way; convoy; escort.  [These senses are now unusual, though not improper.]      4. In a general sense, personal behavior; course of actions; deportment; applicable equally to a good or a bad course of actions; as laudable conduct; detestable conduct The word seems originally to have been followed with life, actions, affairs, or other term; as the conduct of life; the conduct of actions; that is, the leading along of life or actions.  Young men in the conduct and manage of actions embrace more than they can hold.  What in the conduct of our life appears.  But by custom, conduct alone is now used to express the idea of behavior or course of life and manners.      5. Exact behavior; regular life. [Unusual.]      6. Management; mode of carrying on. Christianity has humanized the conduct of war.  
7. The title of two clergymen appointed to read prayers at Eton College in England.
CONDUCT, verb transitive  1. To lead; to bring along; to guide; to accompany and show the way.  And Judah came to Gilgal--to conduct the king over Jordan. 2 Samuel 19:15.      2. To lead; to direct or point out the way. The precepts of Christ will conduct us to happiness.      3. To lead; to usher in; to introduce; to attend in civility.  Pray receive them nobly, and conduct them into our presence.      4. To give a direction to; to manage; applied to things; as, the farmer conducts his affairs with prudence.       5. To lead, as a commander; to direct; to govern; to command; as, to conduct an army or a division of troops.      6. With the reciprocal pronoun, to conduct ones self, is to behave. Hence, by a customary omission of the pronoun, to conduct in an intransitive sense, is to behave; to direct personal actions. [See the Noun.]      7. To escort; to accompany and protect on the way.

FOUND'ED, participle passive Set; fixed; established on a basis; begun and built.

 FORCE, noun [Latin fortis. All words denoting force power, strength, are from verbs which express straining, or driving, rushing, and this word has the elements of Latin vireo.]  1. Strength; active power; vigor; might; energy that may be exerted; that physical property in a body which may produce action or motion in another body, or may counteract such motion. By the force of the muscles we raise a weight, or resist an assault.      2. Momentum; the quantity of power produced by motion or the action of one body on another; as the force of a cannon ball.      3. That which causes an operation or moral effect; strength; energy; as the force of the mind, will or understanding.      4. Violence; power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power. Let conquerors consider that force alone can keep what force as obtained.      
5. Strength; moral power to convince the mind. There is great force in an argument.      6. Virtue; efficacy. No presumption or hypothesis can be of force enough to overthrow constant experience.      7. Validity; power to bind or hold. If the conditions of a covenant are not fulfilled, the contract is of no force A testament is of force after the testator is dead. Hebrews 9:17.      8. Strength or power for war; armament; troops; an army or navy; as a military or naval force:sometimes in the plural; as military forces.    
9. Destiny; necessity; compulsion; any extraneous power to which men are subject; as the force of fate or of divine decrees.      10. Internal power; as the force of habit.
11. In law, any unlawful violence to person or property. This is simple, when no other crime attends it, as the entering into another's possession, without committing any other unlawful act. It is compound, when some other violence or unlawful act is committed. The law also implies force as when a person enters a house or inclosure lawfully, but afterwards does an unlawful act. In this case, the law supposes the first entrance to be for that purpose, and therefore by force  Physical force is the force of material bodies.  Moral force is the power of acting on the reason in judging and determining.
            Mechanical force is the power that belongs to bodies at rest or in motion. The pressure or tension of bodies at rest is called a mechanical force and so is the power of a body in motion. There is also the force of gravity or attraction, centrifugal and centripetal forces, expansive force etc.
FORCE, verb transitive   1. To compel; to constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible. Men are forced to submit to conquerors. Masters force their slaves to labor.      2. To overpower by strength. I should have forced thee soon with other arms.      3. To impel; to press; to drive; to draw or push by main strength; a sense of very extensive use; as, to force along a wagon or a ship; to force away a man's arms; water forces its way through a narrow channel; a man may be forced out of his possessions.
4. To enforce; to urge; to press. Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore. [think: Freedom of the press]       5. To compel by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind; to force one to acknowledge the truth of a proposition.      6. To storm; to assault and take by violence; as, to force a town or fort.      7. To ravish; to violate by force as a female.      8. To overstrain; to distort; as a forced conceit.
9. To cause to produce ripe fruit prematurely, as a tree; or to cause to ripen prematurely, as fruit.
10. To man; to strengthen by soldiers; to garrison. obsolete  To force from, to wrest from; to extort.  To force out, to drive out; to compel to issue out or to leave; also, to extort.   To force wine, is to fine it by a short process, or in a short time.   To force plants, is to urge the growth of plants by artificial heat.   To force meat, is to stuff it.
FORCE, verb intransitive  1. To lay stress on. obsolete      2. To strive. obsolete      3. To use violence.

NOT, adverb [See Naught.]  1. A word that expresses negation, denial or refusal; as, he will no go; will you remain? I will not In the first member of a sentence, it may be followed by nor or neither; as not for a price nor reward; I was not in safety, neither had I rest.      2. With the substantive verb in the following phrase, it denies being, or denotes extinction of existence.  Thine eyes are open upon me, and I am not Job 7:1.

CONSCIENCE, noun [Latin , to know, to be privy to.]  1. Internal or self-knowledge, or judgment of right and wrong; or the faculty, power or principle within us, which decides on the lawfulness or unlawfulness of our own actions and affections, and instantly approves or condemns them. conscience is called by some writers the moral sense, and considered as an original faculty of our nature. Others question the propriety of considering conscience as a distinct faculty or principle. The consider it rather as the general principle of moral approbation or disapprobation, applied to ones own conduct and affections; alledging that our notions of right and wrong are not to be deduced from a single principle or faculty, but from various powers of the understanding and will.  Being convicted by their own conscience they went out one by one. John 8:9.
            The conscience manifests itself in the feeling of obligation we experience, which precedes, attends and follows our actions.
            CONSCIENCE is first occupied in ascertaining our duty, before we proceed to action; then in judging of our actions when performed.
2. The estimate or determination of conscience; justice; honesty. What you require cannot, in conscience be deferred.      3. Real sentiment; private thought; truth; as, do you in conscience believe the story?      4. Consciousness; knowledge of our own actions or thought.  The sweetest cordial we receive at last, is conscience of our virtuous actions past.  [This primary sense of the word is nearly, perhaps wholly obsolete.]      5. Knowledge of the actions of others.     6. In ludicrous language, reason or reasonableness.
            Half a dozen fools are, in all conscience as many as you should require.  Jonathan Swift
            To make conscience or a matter of conscience is to act according to the dictates of conscience or to scruple to act contrary to its dictates.  John Locke
            Court of conscience a court established for the recovery of small debts in London and other trading cities and districts.  Sir William Blackstone

PURSUIT, noun The act of following with a view to overtake; a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; as the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy. 1. A following with a view to reach, accomplish or obtain; endeavor to attain to or gain; as the pursuit of knowledge; the pursuit of happiness or pleasure; the pursuit of power, of honor, of distinction, of a phantom.      2. Proceeding; course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to some end; as mercantile pursuits; literary pursuits.      3. Prosecution; continuance of endeavor."]

See what happens to your person of liberty in learning, understanding, perceiving, wisdom, knowledge for Truth in Trust, Faith in Promise......  One disadvantage of using the online and cell phone 1828, is that the quotes are never identified....[that's part of the reason computer's are arbitrary rules of conduct force; for the 'it' of forming and creating the software to function in your hardware is complex enough that placing identity to the truth, trust, and promise of Dr. Webster's magnificent work, and the immense 'self-learning' that can be accomplished when you allow your 'free-spirit of ask, seek, and knock, for at least 99.8% of you do obey the lessons, warnings, instructions, and ENFORCEMENT of the One Law within the Laws of the Three Sacred Documents .... the 5W's and H of how God's Era History, to among We the People, departed, for a God's Era -nanosecond, to the broad and open, wide road to destruction, contrasted with staying in discipline and endurance, the "narrow and close road to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness in choosing to abide by The Words of our Friend in Holy Ghost/ Helper.

It is important to understand, Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is about  You, alone First, then in transitive and recursive, to all you know, and will never know, within Your, alone, sphere of influence, resulting from Your Choices in Life.  Like understanding the magnificence within Dr. Webster, everyone of the Colonists (Who are You and me - just a bit earlier!) and especially not just the Founder's who are magnificent, simply because those two Founding Documents are as complete as is The Whole of the Bible -- and are the Life, equally and separately alone, as a Nation, among those who we call allies, and among those we do not know or understand well, i.e our international role because of The Laws of the Universe of heaven and earth -- ALL that belong to them, The Whole System of Created Things....concentric, tangent, parabola, cone, curve, that marks the Periodic Chart of the Elements, physics, and living and inanimate, indifferent-objects - tools... all of this is continuing toward "Let us make man in our own likeness, to resemble  us, with mastery over the fish in the sea, the birds of the air, the animals, every wild beast of the earth, and every reptile that crawls on earth. "  But First, man must be Master of Himself......Our Everlasting Father and our Shepherd Know US(A) by our Names...each-one-in liberty of the very good and the very evil...










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